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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 February 2018
      22 February 2018
      ISBN:
      9781316661444
      9781107156654
      9781316610015
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316661444
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.59kg, 316 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.4kg, 318 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
      Subjects:
      Legal History, US Law, Law, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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    Series:
    Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
    Subjects:
    Legal History, US Law, Law, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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    In the contemporary domain of American legal thought there is a dominant way in which lawyers and judges craft their argumentative practice. More colloquially, this is a dominant conception of what it means to 'think like a lawyer'. Despite the widespread popularity of this conception, it is rarely described in detail or given a name. Justin Desautels-Stein tells the story of how and why this happened, and why it matters. Drawing upon and updating the work of Harvard Law School's first generation of critical legal studies, Desautels-Stein develops what he calls a jurisprudence of style. In doing so, he uncovers the intellectual alliance, first emerging at the end of the nineteenth century and maturing in the last third of the twentieth century, between American pragmatism and liberal legal thought. Applying the tools of legal structuralism and phenomenology to real-world cases in areas of contemporary legal debate, this book develops a practice-oriented understanding of legal thought.

    Reviews

    'In this wide-ranging and masterful work, Justin Desautels-Stein explores, dissects, and critiques what it means to think like a lawyer in today’s hegemonic context of liberal legal thought. Drawing on art history and musicology, ranging from the anthropologist Philippe Descola to the philosopher Hubert Dreyfus, from Roland Barthes to Michel Foucault, Desautels-Stein creatively reinvigorates the Harvard School of legal structuralism to expose the deep historical, structural, and conceptual illusions of contemporary pragmatic legal liberal thought.'

    Bernard E. Harcourt - author of The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order

    'An engrossing, at times deeply moving effort to recover the unity and purpose of critical legal studies.'

    Charles Sabel - Columbia Law School, New York

    'A fascinating contribution to critical legal thought in the United States. Desautels-Stein revisits and reinterprets American legal pragmatism alongside late twentieth century efforts to assess and critique its practice. His direct informal style brings complex theoretical debates to life.'

    David Kennedy - Harvard Law School, Massachusetts

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